SUMMARY BY JOHN CHENG - Was it inevitable that Africans
would be imported to the Americas to become slaves? Did European
views about racial inferiority contribute to the fact of New
World African slavery?

EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how have ideas of race changed and affected
the treatment of Native Americans and the self-identity of
tribes like the Cherokee - from the early encounter with British
colonists to today?

EDITED TRANSCRIPT - what do the world's fairs tell us about
our ideas of race? How did Americans at the start of the 20th
century view themselves and others? Why were indigenous peoples
from around the world put on display?

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